I read a book last year by Catholic writer Paul Fisher, titled BEHIND THE LODGE DOOR. about masonic attack on the Church and infiltration into the U.S. govt. The book has thousands of footnotes, all documented from the library of congress, congressional records, newspapers, etc. Fisher also wrote another book which I also read, containing a collection of Papal Encyclicals condemning freemasonry, titled "Their god is the devil".

Catholics may be familiar with Fisher, as he has written for many traditional Catholic papers. Fisher also worked as a US Congressional aide and served in the Navy. His writings have also extensively covered groups such as Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral commission, Bilderberg group, etc. and the secrecy and occult ties to these groups.

Which brings me to my point. The following is what Patrick Henry said about government:

"We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth... For my part, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst; and to provide for it."

Scripture sums it up for us:

"For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood; but against principalities and powers, against the rulers of the world of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the high places."Ephesians 6:12.

Here is a sampling of what the Popes said about freemasonry:

"Filled with the spirit of Satan, who knows how to transform himself into an angel of light, Freemasonry puts forward as its pretended aim the good of humanity. Paying a lip service to the authority of law, and even to the obligations of religion, it aims at the destruction of civil authority and the Christian priesthood, both of which it regards as the foes of human liberty." -Pope Leo XIII

"Their Law is Untruth: Their God is the Devil and their Cult is Turpitude." -Pope Pius VIII

The current Pope, when he was Cardinal Ratzinger was asked a few years ago if the church's stance on freemasonry still stands and he verified that it still stands.

JFK said this in a speech, weeks before his asassination:

"The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret pro- ceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarrented concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it. Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating it's arbitrary actions. Even today, there is little value in assuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment. That I do not intend to permit to the extent that it is in my control." http://www.networker.www3.50megs.com/jfk8.html

John Quincy Adams, The Sixth President of The United States said:

"I am prepared to complete the demonstration before God and man, that the Masonic oaths, obligations and penalties, cannot, by any possibility, be reconciled to the laws of morality, of Christianity, or of the land." J.Q. Adam's letter to Ed. Livingston.

Samuel Adams, The Father of the Revolution said: "I am decidedly opposed to all secret societies whatever!"

John Hancock, President of the Continental Congress said: "I am opposed to all secret societies."

James Madison, The Fourth President of the United States said: "From the number and character of those who now support the charges against Freemasonry, I cannot doubt that it is at least susceptible of abuse, outweighing any advantages promised by its patrons."

Whereas George W. Bush, when asked about his membership in Yale Skull & Bones on NBC's Meet the Press with Tim Russert, said "It's so secret I can't talk about it". A similar answer was given by his cousin John F Kerry, another Yale skull & bones member, when he was questioned about it. (And yes, as ridiculous as it sounds, they are indeed cousins; even the Orange County Register newspaper had an article on it, which I still have).

By the way, why did purported 'pro-lifer' G.W. Bush vehemently campaign for rabid abortionist Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, when there was a pro life conservative republican named Pat Toomey, running against Specter in the primary? (See www.BushRevealed.com for archived articles and photos of Bush/Specter campaign photos.)

Interesting that Paul Fisher includes in his book a Wall Street Journal article from the 1980's in which Specter is revealed to be a 33rd degree freemason. 33rd degree freemasons stomp on a replica of the papal crown and say 'death to Rome' and other such things in their satanic rituals.

It's no wonder that Bush, whose father and grandfather were also both members of Skull and bones, and whose grandfather Prescott Bush financed Hitler and was charged by he US Govt under the TRADING WITH THE ENEMIES ACT in 1942, and his assets seized. George Herbert Walker Bush advocated global population control programs while he was a congressman in Texas, and openly criticized the Pope's statements against birth control at the time. [Details on Bush senior's war against the Pope]

This is all in the official U.S. Congressional Record and I will provide links if you wish to research it for yourself. Is it somehow surprising or confusing that GW Bush and his wife Laura would campaign for a liberal pro-abortion 33rd degree mason? Not at all.

Here is what the famous freemasons themselves say, in their own words:

"Lucifer, the Light-bearer! Strange and mysterious name to give to the Spirit of Darkness! Lucifer, the son of the morning! Is it he who bears the Light, and with it's splendors intolerable blinds feeble, sensual or selfish Souls? Doubt it not!

Morals and Dogma, page 321 Illustrious Albert Pike 33° Sovereign Grand Commander Supreme Council 33°, The Mother Supreme Council of the World The "must read" Occult "Bible" of Freemasonry by the "Pope" of Freemasonry...

"The apex of our teachings has been the rituals of MORALS AND DOGMA, written over a century ago."

-Illustrious C. Fred Kleinknecht 33° Sovereign Grand Commander Supreme Council 33° The Mother Supreme Council of the World New Age Magazine, January 1989 The official organ of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry

Back to Patrick Henry:

"We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth... For my part, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst; and to provide for it."

Which reminds me of another scripture, "Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil: that put. darkness for light, and light for darkness: that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter." Isaiah 5:20

I won't even ask you why so many Catholics enthusiastically support this undeclared Iraq 'war' when the church and Popes are strictly against it and call it an unjust war.

In one of his last letters before his death, freemason Thomas Jefferson wrote:

"May it be to the world, what I believe it will be (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all), the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government. That form which we have substituted, restores the free right to the unbounded exercise of reason and freedom of opinion.

"All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God. These are grounds of hope for others. For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them."

The constant referral to 'monkish' and 'popery' derisions by the freemason founders is not coincidental or accidental. Even on his death bed Jefferson let his true colors show regarding his philosphical war with the Church.- a war which still wages today. To the freemasons, liberty meant much more than political freedom from despots; it meant rejection of what they viewed as the 'chains' of God's law, the commandments of Jesus Christ and the Roman Catholic church.

"Buried in a document of the Pontifical Council for Culture, dated March 13, 2004, is this surprising observation concerning the state of religious belief in the world:

"[A] certain cultural hostility is being spread against religions, especially Christianity and Catholicism in particular, notably through the means of social communication, and is promoted by Masonic sources active in different organisations."[i]

Just like that a Vatican pronouncement reminds us that the Church is still at war with Freemasonry. And we thought they had forgotten. This discovery can only be an embarrassment to those Catholic sophisticates who turn up their noses at what they view as an aberrantly traditionalist "preoccupation" with the role of Masonry in world affairs. Here we have a very recent document from the distinctively non-traditionalist Pontifical Council for Culture matter-of-factly remarking the existence of a worldwide campaign against the Church by "Masonic sources active in different organizations." That sounds awfully like the sort of Masonic conspiracy the sophisticates belittle in their supposedly more nuanced understanding of Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment history.

The Church versus the Masonic Sect... ...

Christ's divinely revealed commission to baptize and make disciples of all nations, teaching them to observe all things He has commanded, is a heresy in the Masonic system. For the Mason, the only god to whom all nations must be converted is Liberty. Before Liberty every knee must bend. Christ Himself must bend His knee to Liberty, respecting the autonomy of the newly created Masonic realm of secular politics. ....

However imperfectly Liberty was understood by the common man in revolutionary America, in the minds of those who wielded Liberty as a philosophical concept its meaning was crystal clear: freedom from any external authority not subject to the "sovereign will of the people"which is to say, the overthrow of the Catholic social order of altar and throne, the dreaded memory of which was invoked to stoke the passions of the colonial masses. A typical example of this propaganda is a sermon by one Reverend Holly in defense of resistance to British taxation and other violations of "Liberty." If the colonists were to submit to British tyranny, Holly warned, it would only be a matter of time before their consciences would be

"bound by Popish chains, which, when thoroughly fastened upon us, away must go our Bibles, and in lieu thereof we must have imposed upon us, the superstitions and damnable heresies and idolatries of the church of Rome. Then we must pray to the Virgin Mary, worship images, believe their doctrine of purgatory, and the Pope's infallibility, and such like. And last of all, the deepest plot of hell and Rome, the holy inquisition, must guard the Catholic faith of the church of Rome, and bind us thereto with all its terrors and cruelty.[ix]

When all is said and done, Liberty has always meant emancipation from the claims of the Catholic Church on men and nations, or what Pierre Manent has called "the Church's complete subordination to the body politic."[x] Hence the incessant propaganda of colonial pamphleteers against "Popery" had the same object as the outright genocide of the Catholic hierarchy by the Jacobins of France: the suppression of what Pope Leo called "the power of that divine religion which the Freemasons hate in proportion to their fear of it." The Masonic mind's hatred and fear of Christ and His Church was summed up in Voltaire's famous epithet "ecrasons l'infame!" ("let us crush the infamous one"). The Lodge of Nine Muses inducted Voltaire into the Craft in 1778. In attendance was his American Masonic brother, Benjamin Franklin.

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